Looking at Oregon Territory Through Advertisements

Authors

  • Edith Dobie

Abstract

"Oregon Territory did not, of course, boast of a large morning paper but in the columns of the Oregon Spectator, a bi-weekly news journal, one finds much of interest concerning the early life of the Pacific Northwest. The Oregon Spectator, which began publication in January, 1846, gave the news of a pioneer community in the earliest stages of development. The paid advertising in the issues throughout the years 1846 and 1847 reveals much of the every day affairs of the people of the Oregon country, their occupations, their hardships, their common interests."

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2010-01-08

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